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Saturday, April 5th, 2008

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 61-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing at 0730, unfortunately, there was a tournament today. Fished the wall on the south end of the lake from the dam. Caught 6 bass in 2 hours, avg 1-2 lbs, on Blades, and Natural Shad Senkos (Wacky Style). After that, the bite dropped off. caught two more slot-sized spots at Temperance. Bad news: No bass seen in the shallows, the Good News: Eyes have turned red, and some had messed up tails. According to one fisherman who I towed in, he saw males swiming in the shallows at cottonwood, hopefully the spawn will be here soon.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Have patience, fish slow, and avoid Saturdays, almost everyone for the next two onths will have a tournament.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: no luck. 4 bites total. no fish in the tube.
      City: san francisco

      Tips: we fished super slow. some drop shotting was done and some jig flipping. found i lot of lures though.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Saturday took my 8 year old son out for 4 hours. Fished Goat Ranch and Dark Canon. Took about twelve fish on drop shot. My son Zack took two nice slot fish. No reaction bite. I spent alot of time teaching my son how to tie knots. I used the three inch Berkley fluke tyle and purple Robo worms. A little of wind at times. I just wanted to get the boat out with my son
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Not a lot to offer. Drop shot worked for me from 10 to 20 feet. No takers on tubes or jigs

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I mean the wind at Sonoma?
      City: Pacifica

Friday, April 4th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We held our Annual Fab-4 Spring Fly Fishing Derby on Friday 4/4/08 at Lake Berryessa. The water was very clear, with 15+ feet of visibility. The wind was blowing strong all day. Most fish were showing at 18 - 25 ft deep which meant throwing LC-13 on 8wt or 9wt rods. First place went to the team of Frank & Gary of San Jose while 2nd place went to Tom & Karl of Fremont. All fish were caught in 18+ deep on light-green colored baits. Rocky points with some protection from the wind were the most productive areas.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fishing slow and deep were the keys to success. One fisherman who broke ranks by using spinning gear reported that drop-shotting minnow patterns in 20+ feet of water produced smallmouth, along with Carolina-rigged 4" worms of light green with sparkle.

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is filling, don't know if it will fill completely but it might get close. It is fishable now and will only get better. I caught 10 bass and only fished from 1pm to 5pm. I wish more people would post this lake. It is a nice little lake to fish and has some quality fish.
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: Take Carol with you she didn't catch a single fish, man is she pissed.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 56-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on water 7AM and had no luck early using dropshot, spinnerbait and spook. Partner caught keeper on senko 9 AM. I caught spinnerbait fish keeper 10am. Lost about 3 pounder behind island 11am on shaking worm and partner caught to keepers on senko there also. Bit of wind and boat enter went really well, used partners boat and he was there last saturday and had lock on so went right in. Guys were really nailing trout. lots of boats and lots of fish. Hope to be going on Monday
      City: Santa Maria

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is the lake open to private boats?
      City: SB

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: low 60s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Cliff Croxall of Benicia, CA and I fished April 4&5 (Fri/Sat)in the Frank's Tract and Mildred areas. Air temps were a little warmer than at clear lake, but still cool and windy (wore warm clothes all day). We caught 20 plus bass in two full days of fishing. Highlight for me was catching a 6-6 on a jig/sweet beaver combo in 6-10 feet (my biggest jig fish to date). She was all spawned out in the mid-section but had a huge head (probably a 7-8 lb fish a couple weeks prior). Cliff caught three or four 4 lbers. The rest were in the 2-3 lb range. We primarily pitched sweet beavers on a 3/16 oz texas rig (sprayed grass) and 6" senkos in green or purple. The primary pattern to success was pitching to tule island points with deeper water nearby (5'-20'). Following the high, outgoing tide seem to be best.
      This was my third time fishing the delta. Finally starting to find a method to this madness. Some of Cliff's club members stated they were catching bass on red cranks and spinnerbaits along rock shorelines (7 lber on spinnerbait). We took several great pictures with cliff's new digital camera that could have ended up on the cover of Basswest magazine!
      City: San Diego, CA

      Tips: fish tule island points with deep water access, during the outgoing tide.
      If you get "blown out" of Frank's track with white caps, head to the Holland/Mildred areas where it remains calm and out of the bay breeze.

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: d-castro hang in there, the last two weeks we either hit them big or struggled all day. spinner baits worked a week and a half ago. jigs black and blue still ok, chatter bait with swim sinko guarenteed.speed trap crank bait on the rock walls 50 50.today we saw a ten pounder caught on chad crank, it was not us,two days ago fished the incoming with crank and spinning nothing to speak of then put a chatter with a sinko,got a 4 5 5 8 lost a 6 to a seven at boat within thirty minutes then nothing after tide whent high, use the sinko off island tullys when nothing elese works
      City: san ramon

      Tips: weather change are the days not to miss....

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to the state park today cuz i heard it was on fire last week...fished the launch ramp exclusively..and nailed a nice 3 pounder that fought like a 6...they should start spawning soon...:)
      City: clearlake

      Tips: wait a week or so and the bite should be on fire!!!!!

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: decided to hit up collins again, i dont know why. well probably cause i have a small boat and collns is easy to get around. got on water at 650, fished till noon, caught around 15 bass, larget 2 lbs, all on stacy 90 rip bait, shad and rainbow trout collor. tried throwing senkos wacky rigged in the areas we caught fish, tried some other plastic, no hits. hard on a boat this time of year with no dpeth finder. Decent day on the water as far as fishing gos, but let me tell you collins was a zooOOOO! never seen so many boat, ther literally must have been 75 boats on that lake, you couldnt go 100 yeards without having to maneuer around some desuchbags trolling lines for trout, only saw 3 or 4 trout caught all day. Collins lakes website that raves about their trout fishing is a joke and should be shut down.
      City: davis

      Tips: i know ill be staying away from collins on the weekends, waht a miserable feeling with all those boats around, saw more people than i do walking around the city. By the way, i know im not the only one fishing out there, post a report!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This was the second trip to my new "home" lake. I still have a lot to learn I did get three nice ones shaking a 4 inch MMII Roboworm in the North Fork.
      City: Georgetown

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THE DATE BELOW WAS APRIL 4TH 2008
      City: FAIR OAKS

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 60 bass for my buddy randy and I in 9 hours.
      We got a few off the rock piles early on with senkos, and beavers then a few skipping docks.
      But at dusk we couldnt help but catch them on every cast for at least an hour, throwing c.b"s, and these ugly home made thingys.
      It cooled off for a few hours, and then around midnight they started killing anything that made a splash.The biggest was around 7, and we had an impacted buttload of 5's. Our best 5 went close to 30 pounds.
      City: auburn

      Tips: throw something with a hook in the wet part of the lake, and you will catch something.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: To the 2 tubers out in the Impoundment today....any luck? I've been wondering if I should dust the tube off and head out there.

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Began fishing about noon, fairly windy hard to find a spot calm enough to fish slow. Caught our first fish at 3:00 and ended up with 23. Few caught drop shotting the rest on straight tail finesse worms. Some three inch some 4.
      City: Chico

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Concentrated on the South Fork from 10am-5:00pm. Figured the South Fork warms up first in early Spring. Partner and I caught about 20 fish with 2 double hookups. 16 in the slot, 4 over. I am always amazed at the pulling power of those Spots! 5 fish limit would be around 8#. All fish came in 18'- 22' of water off points. The exposed trees looked great but not too productive for us. I imagine the spawn will really be on in the next week or two in all arms.
      The Lake is up about 50' since January. Only 150' to go!!!!
      City: Lake Oroville Ca.

      Tips: Majority of fish caught on tube baits and jigs. No reaction bite for us. If you find fish come back around and make another pass. They seem concentrated once you find them.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out today, fishing was slow. Super clear water. tried everything. worms, swim baits, cranks, jigs. Nothing worked. I only managed to catch 3 small ones on a senko. This lake is not quit ready yet.
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dad didn't get bit on plastics but Partner got 3 little one's on live crawfish. Dad talked to some people and they said fishing has been good the whole week but the storm front messed up fridays fishing going again on Monday, will check in after the trip. Hope others will write in also about thier trips...
      City: Oakdale